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I have here a fairly old computer with a windows 98 operation system. Just changed the monitor to a new 17" Samsung flatscreen, and connected to the PC fine with VGA connectors. The result was not too disateröus at first, but the quality of graphics was not too good i.e. …

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I'm new to java and i am trying to make the scanner function work, but it won't. I have the latest version of java and Mac OS X This is the info on the version that terminal gave me: java version "1.5.0_06" Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_06-112) …

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Ok here is my new desktop setup for Ubuntu 6.06. Ive got Linista 3 as the GTK/Metacity theme, Some Mac OS X icons, XGL/Compiz installed and running, CGWD vista aero theme, A application panel up top that is hidden unless rollover, some terminal changes (transparency, text, text color), and I …

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Hello everyone. I recently picked up a legal copy of OS X Tiger for x86 from the official Apple open source website. I am going to attempt to install it on an AMD Athlon based PC with 256 MB RAM and no SSE support. I will then attempt to grab …

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I know about the Iris pen scanner that are avaiable at the Apple shop. But I am looking for one that is portable, one that does not need to be connected to the computer with USB as scanning, but can be connected for downloading. C pen has software for the …

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First of all, hello! This is my first post here and hopefully not my last! I am having a very strange network issue that I am hoping you fine folks can help me with, let me explain... We have two home networks and a total of 4 computers. My dad …

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[COLOR=#000000]I work in a mixed Mac and PC environment, majority PC, and I have DHCP running on 2 servers with different scopes both are Win 2003 Server. The issue that I am having is with the client name in the address lease of the DHCP server.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Some of them come …

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Hi Guys, I have over 100 directories on my site, most of which I do not use anymore and that need to be deleted, you see I upload alot of websites that my company design to test them out and also web applications which I BETA test on there. Does …

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OK, I may be the only person still using WORD version 5, however, I am, and with my legacy situation, it makes sense to continue to do so rather than upgrade to one of the bloated more recent issues of that software, so ..... Is there any way to make …

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Hi there everyone. One of my older computers which for some reason i use more then the other computers so i decide that i should fix it up. Here is the specs of this computer right now (This is a oldie but it works fine) Computer: Operating System: Microsoft Windows …

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Hi! Not sure if this is a virus issue, but a friend of mine thinks it is so I'm posting to this forum first. I'm working on a friend's computer now that cannot access secure sites. Any time she goes to log in to secure websites (like her bank, or …

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I saw the code snippet by vicki_dev for drawing a function using turbo C on windows and wondered if there was anything like this or even this code with the calls to the OS inline. I don't have an OS on the embedded systems I work on and need a …

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I have some mac g4 mirrowed doors that crashes in many languages 3 or 4 times a day without no reason, somtemies after wakeup, doing something esay with illustrato or photoshop. i decide to change the hard drive for a new one and made no result. then i used a …

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HELLO THERE! I HAVE A POWERBOOK G4 AND OS X TIGER, I AM HAVING BIG PROBLEMS WITH IT:rolleyes: , WHEN I TURN IT ON TAKE SEVERAL MINUTES TO START, THEN WHITE MAC PAGE APPEAR, THEN A BLUE PAGE AND THEN NOTHING, I JUST CAN HEAR A FUNNY NOISE, I DON'T …

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Wishing to proceed with a big clean-up of my internal HD, I've just purchased an external drive which I duly partitioned and onto which I saved all my data. I thought it would be easy to install OS X Tiger... BUT... the installation aborts half-way through -installation of essential software- …

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I finally got one of those MacBook beauties! So I set about putting Wine on it so I can finally access some of the programs I've been missing out on as a Mac user. So when I try to run Darwine, it says it can't find the truetype libraries. When …

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what is wrong with the following simple code? [code] int *n; int a=1; n=&a; cout <<"n="<<*n<<"\n"; [/code] It compiles, but print out "Bus Error". I am compling this code under Mac OS X, Unix shell, g++.

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Hi there, I feel a bit awkward posting this question without a proper introduction of myself, also not being a developer or anything. But there's this nagging problem I have with my homepage. [URL="http://www.xs4all.nl/~nickelvd/"]Here it is[/URL] (Dutch only). As you can see (in other browsers than Firefox), there's a javascript …

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Hi all! I have a 15 inch PowerBook G4 1.67 Ghz laptop running OS X version 10.4.6. It has a Matshita DVD-R UJ-845E superdrive. Is this computer able to burn onto Dual Layer discs? And if it can't, am I able to download a firmware upgrade that would make this …

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I am unable to remove/delete movies from my PowerMac/OS X. I cannot drag them to the Trash and cannot find a working solution in Mac Help. The movies do no have a 'Get Info' option and the 'delete' is grayed out and does not respond. Please I need step-by-step instructions. …

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Please help me!!! Recently, while mucking about in linux, i decided to abort an instalation of Suse 9.2. I quit it and everything, and shut down the computer.:mad: Big mistake. Now the computer doesn't start. I need to install windows XP onto it. however, when you start the system, there …

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good day... I need HELP!!! pretty pls.... Ive just got a old g3 imac as a gift, but only the power button lights up and i hear noise from the fan... ive surched about this and ive only come up with two scenarios why this happens...either the vga card is …

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Hello to all of you. My name is Greg. I am currently running Mac OS X ( my homeschooling computer). Anyways, I'm having trouble downloading Python to my Mac. Every python file I've downloaded and decompressed with StuffIt Expander, just seems to be nothing but files that I don't know …

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hi there, i purchased this imac g5 dec 2005 and it worked perfectly for 4 month. Machine Name: iMac G5 Machine Model: PowerMac8,2 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 2 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 667 MHz Boot …

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good day... I need HELP!!! pretty pls.... Ive just got a old g3 imac as a gift, but only the power button lights up and i hear noise from the fan... ive surched about this and ive only come up with two scenarios why this happens...either the vga card is …

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good day... I need HELP!!! pretty pls.... Ive just got a old g3 imac as a gift, but only the power button lights up and i hear noise from the fan... ive surched about this and ive only come up with two scenarios why this happens...either the vga card is …

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I just found out about a shell script /etc/daily that mac users recommend running daily or weekly. It supposedly removes old system messages and junk. Does OS X invoke this script automatically every so often or must it be manually invoked? Is it very necessary?

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My iMac G5 has had this problem already for a little while, and I think it's in need of codecs reinstall. iTunes and QuickTime work normally, but that's about it. RealPlayer and Windows Media Player 9 play video, but without sound. Same goes for their respective browser plugins. I think …

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For those of you who don't know, fink ([url]http://fink.sourceforge.net[/url]) is a debian-based package management program for OS X which ports a number of *nix programs to the mac. Using fink, I installed mc (Midnight Commander), my favorite terminal-based file management utility for linux. During the install, it told me it …

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As most of you know, Apple's Mac OS X uses a custom version of Unix (more specifically, a BSD variant). This makes much of the operating system feel like home to many Unix and Linux people. (For example, you can compile code using gcc, and have full acess to a …

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HI... I HAVE A TROUBLE WITH MY MAC (TIGER MAC OS x V10.4) I AM A NEW USER IN MAC... OK... WHEN TURN ON THE MAC, IT'S SHOW ME A XFRE86 MODE (LIKE A LINUX OR UNIX) I HAVE THE USER AND PASWORD FOR ENTER TO THE SYSTEM (NO PROBLEM) …

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I am running mac os x tiger on an IBM thinkpad t42 laptop and my builtin network card is an intel pro/1000 MT - I have tried downloading tulip - although I get "can't find the make command" when I try to run sudo make install- so I downloaded an …

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Has anyone had any experience with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection software for Mac, or logging into a remote Windows server via a Mac through the internet? The company I work for requires me to be able to log into their server from home by typing in a URL in Internet …

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Has anyone had any experience with Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection software for Mac, or logging into a remote Windows server via a Mac through the internet? The company I work for requires me to be able to log into their server from home by typing in a URL in Internet …

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Hi all, I have taken some code to read a file into an Byte array, which is then returned to another part of my code, below is what i have. [CODE] public void jButton6_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { String Filelocation = "c:\\temp\\hello.txt"; try{ InputStream is = new FileInputStream(Filelocation); //get the size of …

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[URL=http://www.geocities.com/aqua_luna_osx_xp/]http://www.geocities.com/aqua_luna_osx_xp/[/URL] for your information: Luna is the Windows Xp GUI(*) and Aqua is the Mac Os X's one. * gui means: graphical user interface (i know that the text of the tutorial is in french, but the softwares are the same as in english -> they have english names)

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[B]I recently formatted my hard drive and re-installed an old version of win 98se as I did not have win me which was on there. Since doing this I have managed to find some of the drivers for the hardware (graphics amongst others) but have been unable to get the …

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iMac G5 1,8GHz 17'' combo I tried a restore on this machine, a month or so ago, then went to a full erase and install 10.4. There was little or less improvement, then on start (restart) the machine gets to the grey screen with the apple logo and hangs there. …

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...my keyboard dosn't work on my Mac OS X x86 system, mouse work fine but keyboard dosn't...please help me!!!

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Hi, I have an old slot-loading Imac [vintage 2001] running Mac OS 9. Computer shipped wih 64mb ram and I've upgraded memory to 128mb. Can I upgrade to OS X on my Imac? Unfortuantely I'm not terribly tech. data literate and couldn't suss this myself! Local branch of PC World …

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Hi - Though I have had OS X 10.2 for awhile, I could never receive my mail when I tried to use it, so I have run old classic 9.2 forever, using Outlook Express 5.02. Anyway, I expreienced a MAJOR crash last week, so - since I lost EVERYTHING - …

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Hi, I just got a new iMac G5 with OS X Tiger, and I am unable to download MP3 sound files. When I try, QuickTime Player automatically opens and begins to play them, but I am unable to download them. These are information files, not music files. On my old …

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Guys, right now I'm developing a web traffic analysis coding. So, the problem is that my php syntax can't read the browser type and version (i.e Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla/5). It only displayed unknown. This also occured when the coding tried the OS version (i.e Windows 2000, XP, Linux). Below …

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I get a big error when trying to start it up or when trying to do startx [CODE]Using authority file /root/.Xauthority Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority Using authority file /root/.Xauthority Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority X: warning; process set to priority -11 instead of requested priority -10 XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 …

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I am trying to network a mac which has a dial-up connection to a PC with XP using an Ethernet switch where is a good reference to this ?

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Hi, I have pagemaker 6.5 (I am used to the program and it satisfies all my dtp needs) and have been using it on an old apple G3. I am thinking of buying a Mac Mini which comes with Mac OS X Tiger - will the Pagemaker 6.5 work on …

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Seems like anything I want to do requires an administrative password. I do not know what this is. I have two operating systems (MAC OS 9.2.2 & MAC OS X 10.1.2). I have both install disks. I have instructions on resetting the password in OS X 10.1.5 or earier. (Here's …

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OS X 10.4.5 here. I have a simple question. In the Finder menu bar there's an 'edit' menu with a "cut" option. I have never seen an instance where that option isn't disabled. Does anyone know why or seen an instance where the "cut" function does work in the Finder? …

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I have an infection and can't get rid of it. I tried adaware,spybot,avg,ewido and the online scans and nothing gets rid of it. spyfalcon and a globe that looks like windows update but it changes to a red circle with a X in the center and then back to the …

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